Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 2 | It was Peter who forced me to see things in a different light . ’ |
| 3 | However , my GCSE courses eventually led me to attend university as a mature student and now I hope to become a solicitor . |
| 4 | In several studies of small groups , Bales and his colleagues were able to generate a list of frequent behaviour categories to enable them to observe behaviour in a way that was relevant and consistent . |
| 5 | This will cause approval listings not to be produced when users prepare a package for approval using option 1.5.2 — Prepare package For Approval and will enable them to grant approval to a package immediately if they feel able to do so . |
| 6 | There were various suggestive pieces of evidence , for example from the volume relations of gases — two volumes of hydrogen combine with one of oxygen , which suggests H 2 O — but all of them posed difficulties of a theoretical kind . |
| 7 | Section 17(1) imposes a general welfare duty on local authorities and obliges them to provide services for a particular group of children identified as children in need . |
| 8 | The following Saturday morning I asked Granpa for a couple of hours off . |
| 9 | I asked McIllvanney in a tone of genuine enquiry . |
| 10 | I mean it 's it 's happened and I was ha I was so interested in the subject that I asked Mr for a copy of the report where it goes back in the history and of course it is the history of trading standards and , and so on . |
| 11 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 12 | Essential meaning I introduce Gerry to a few friendly drinks . |
| 13 | I made friends with a girl in a similar plight : Sophie had twin boys the same age as Tom , and her husband , Jack , ex-R.A.F. with a handlebar moustache , was working for his exams in chartered accountancy . |
| 14 | Later I made scenes with a knife and threatened to swallow a bottle of pills . ’ |
| 15 | Does that I mean work by a from now on . |
| 16 | And I mean it is your sort of second home , and the guys that you work with every every week , I mean sort of become , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche to say , but I mean part of a family that you living out there that you live with out there and it is a real I mean when you think of the number that was lost , I mean there were a lot of close friends involved in it . |
| 17 | The Greater York figure does n't I think change as a consequence of what Mr Curtis has said . |
| 18 | I eat breakfast in a hall full of silent women . |
| 19 | I led Karen up a narrow companion-way marked ‘ Crew Only ’ to a constricted quarterdeck partially screened by the lifeboats hanging from their cradles . |
| 20 | ‘ I bring greetings from a distant star , ’ said Chico Nixon . |
| 21 | ‘ I remain Chairman of a large company , Harrison and Crosfield , Chairman of the Dover Harbour Board , which is also looking towards privatisation , and I 've got a number of charities I 'm involved in . |
| 22 | All that has happened is that I met Hugo at a party and came to understand that , as well as having friend and spouse , a woman needs the excitement of a lover from time to time : a re-basing , as it were , in the physical : the reincarnation of the carnal self in a body which gets , over the years , far too controlled by spirit and mind . |
| 23 | ‘ I met Harvey in a restaurant , ’ she mused . |
| 24 | Happy couple : ‘ I met Robert in a bar : It was love at first sight ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I met Paula at a party in San Francisco where she lives . |
| 26 | ‘ I met Kay in a nightclub but did my courting in Woolworth 's where she worked , ’ he says . |
| 27 | I met Salah in a dingy toilet at the back of the greasy yard where the oasis bus was preparing to leave . |
| 28 | I sought clarification on a point he had made at the press conference . |
| 29 | I sold newspapers for a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got just the dog for that , I thought , so I registered Bewey as a PAT dog . |